The List

There have been three additions to the list of incoming freshmen intending to play football at Dartmouth next fall and one subtraction since the last posting here. Heights, weights, likely positions and hopefully hometowns will be updated for the next posting.

Marquist Allen, 6-4, 265, DL, Davis HS/Davis, Calif.

Macklin Ayers, 6-3, 210, LB, Upper Dauphin Area/Elizabethville, Pa.

Dario Arazi, 6-6, 225, DL, Brooklyn Tech/Brooklyn, N.Y.

Josh Balara, 6-3, 290, OL, Dallas /Dallas, Pa.

Isaac Boston, 5-10, 170, WR, Springfield Central/Springfield, Mass.

Kyle Brown, 6-4, 265, OL, Marcellus HS/Homer, N.Y.

Danny Cronin, 6-3, 200, QB-A, IC Catholic/Elmhurst, Ill.

Jack Dyett, 6-5, 210, TE, Brentwood School/Los Angeles, Calif.

Trevon Erickson, 6-2, 225, LB, Kentwood HS/Covington, Wash.

Tyler Green, 5-10,210, TB, Mill Valley HS/Shawnee, Kan.

Thomas Hartnett, 6-3, 290 OL, Pittsburgh Central Catholic/Pittsburgh, Pa.

Jace Henry, 6-4, 235, QB/LB, Lathrop HS/Fairbanks, Alaska

Dylan Lacroix, 6-3, 215, DL, Park Vista Community/Lake Worth, Fla.

Devon Lingle, 6-2, 202 QB, Fletcher HS/Neptune Beach, Fla.

Cameron Maddox, 6-2, 195, DB, Cheshire Academy/Monroe, N.C.

Tyson McCloud, 6-1, 195 OLB/S, North Broward Prep/Coconut Creek, Fla.

Gannon McCorkle, 6-3, 235 DL, Phillips Exeter Academy/Gambrills, Md.

Tevita Moimoi, 6-0, 205, RB, Sacred Heart Prep/Atherton, Calif.

Onye Onuoha, 6-1, 200 DB, Far Northeast HS/Denver.

Ross Parrish, 6-4, 225, TE, Anderson High School/Cincinnati, Ohio

Vachon Raye, 5-11, 165, DB, Washington HS/Atlanta

Joey Richmond, 5-11, 210, RB, Glenbard West HS/Glen Ellyn, Ill.

Nic Sani, 6-6, 240, TE, Central Catholic/Turlock, Calif.

Paxton Scott, 6-1, 183 WR, St. Mark’s/Dallas

Nick Schwitzgebel, 6-3, 285, OL, St. Ignatius/Cleveland

Ethan Sipe, 6-5, 260, OL, Ensworth School/Nashville, Tenn.

Leonard St Gourdin, 6-3, 190, DB, Deerfield Academy/Malden, Mass.

Jarmone Sutherland, 5-11, 175, WR, Newman HS/New Orleans, La.

Carr Urschel, 6-4, 205, LB, St. Mark’s/Dallas, Texas

Wade Williams, 6-2, 185, QB, Brentwood Academy/Brentwood, Tenn.

(Corrections welcomed via the contact form off to the right.)

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Entrance to Johnny Unitas Stadium

Dartmouth is scheduled to play at Towson University on Sept. 26. Writing for Athlon, Craig Haley has a capsule on the Tigers under the headline, FCS Football: Teams Seeking to Answer Playoff Snubs in 2020. (LINK)

Haley writes of Towson:

2019 Record: 7-5, 4-4 CAA (Tie/5th)

Projected Returning Starters: 14 (7 offense/7 defense)

The Skinny: Head coach Rob Ambrose has to replace two-year starting quarterback Tom Flacco, perhaps going back to 2017 starter Ryan Stover. The Tigers get back a few key starters from injury, including all-purpose back Shane Simpson with a sixth season of eligibility. They've gone 3-3 at home in each of the past two seasons and have to do better than that.

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From The Dartmouth (italics are mine):

The West Gym in Alumni Gymnasium has been designated as a possible alternative care site for approximately 125 patients needing low-intensity care, according to an email sent to campus on Wednesday by COVID-19 task force co-chairs Lisa Adams and Joshua Keniston. Beginning Friday, the New Hampshire Army National Guard will move supplies and furniture into the gym.

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I'm going to be on Brett Franklin's radio show at 12:20 today and I think the voice of Dartmouth football is going to ask me about the time legendary North Carolina basketball coach Dean Smith eviscerated me in the Dean Dome. You can stream the broadcast HERE if you dare.

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EXTRA POINT
This is a rough guess but I may have had 5,000 stories published in newspapers over the years.

The first words I ever wrote that made it into print came when I was in eighth grade and composed a letter to the editor of our local daily newspaper to thank three men who shared the coaching duties for our Pony League baseball team, the Colts. What stood out to me and brought me to write the letter was that while each of the three neighbors had children, none of the coaches had a player on the team. They were just three friends who took it upon themselves to coach us. (I still grimace at the memory of the breakup picnic we had in the head coach's back yard when, in advance of spraying his stockade fence, he painted each of our names and batting averages on it with white paint. But that is a story for another day.)

I moved away a long time ago and obviously lost touch with the coaches. To be honest, hadn't really thought about them in years. When I learned yesterday from my brother that one of them, no longer a young man, had died of COVID-19, I found myself thinking nostalgically about the good men who coached our team and a letter I'm glad I wrote all those years ago.

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Last night's sunset over New Hampshire. (Click to enlarge.)